Coronavirus: 44 deaths and 788 new cases in past 24 hours

Another 77 people with recently confirmed Covid-19 are in intensive care and 1077 are being treated in hospital.

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Scotland has recorded 44 deaths from coronavirus and 788 positive cases in the past 24 hours.

The death total has now risen to 3,720 people who died having tested positive for the virus, with 5,380 deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

There are 1077 people with recently confirmed Covid-19 in hospital, with 77 in intensive care. 

Meanwhile there were 21,494 new tests for coronavirus that reported results, with 4.4% of these positive.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde had the highest number of new cases with 221, followed by NHS Lanarkshire at 166, NHS Lothian with 122, NHS Fife at 59 and NHS Ayrshire and Arran with 58.

No cases were recorded in the Western Isles, Shetland or Orkney.

A total of 1,170,888 people in Scotland have been tested at least once since the start of the outbreak and of these, 93,943 have tested positive.

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